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Albert Camus: A Lifeby Olivier Todd, Benjamin IvryISBN 0786707399 (0-7867-0739-9)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Albert Camus: A Life'Book summary:Olivier Todd's biography of Albert Camus matches its subject's depth by portraying the man as well as the moralist. Born in Algeria and raised in poverty by an illiterate mother, Camus never forgot where he came from. He made his name in Nazi-occupied Paris--publicly as the author of The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, covertly as a member of the Resistance and editor of its newspaper, Combat--but he longed for the North African sun of his youth. During the years of crisis when Algeria struggled to break free from France, Camus alienated both colonialists and revolutionaries by supporting full equality for Arabs but denouncing terrorism. "I believe in justice," he told an Algerian heckler at a 1957 meeting he addressed in Stockholm after winning the Nobel Prize. "But I will defend my mother before justice." It is this preference for the concrete over the abstract that makes Camus such an appealing thinker. Todd's biography, which offers the most fully human depiction yet, is equally engaging. [via]
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Albert Einstein: Out of My Later Years Through His Own Wordsby Albert EinsteinISBN 0785820450 (0-7858-2045-0)
Hardcover, Castle Books Inc
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Art and Its Significanceby Stephen David RossISBN 0791418529 (0-7914-1852-9)
Softcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Atlas of Experienceby Louise Van SwaaijISBN 0747550476 (0-7475-5047-6)
Hardcover, Bloomsbury Pub Ltd
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Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Lifeby Surya Das, Lama Surya DasISBN 0767902777 (0-7679-0277-7)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Awakening the Buddhist Heart: Integrating Love, Meaning and Connection into Every Part of Your Life'Book summary:Surya Das's breezy delivery makes his teachings come off like colorful conversation. In the third installment of his bestselling "Awakening" series, America's most popular lama shows us how to integrate inner and outer practices. Our inner spirituality, he says, can never be separate from our relationships with others. With his trademark clarity, he integrates his teachings with light- hearted anecdotes and down-to-earth practices. Basic meditation, for instance, can help us create a gap between our knee-jerk judgments and our reactions, allowing for calm, wise relations. Likewise, one can try authentic listening ("opening the third ear") or exploiting the power of speech to build deeper connections. And beyond human relations lies our connection to the natural world, for which Surya Das also includes a few lovely meditations. Taking that extra step in our practice from the self to the world requires more than just individual persistence, it takes compassion and teaches more than you'd expect. --Brian Bruya [via]
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The Book of Job: Authorized King James VersionISBN 0802136125 (0-8021-3612-5)
Softcover, Grove Pr
Find This BookBook summary:The publication of the King James version of the Bible, translated between 1603 and 1611, coincided with an extraordinary flowering of English literature and is universally acknowledged as the greatest influence on English-language literature in history. Now, world-class literary writers introduce the book of the King James Bible in a series of beautifully designed, small-format volumes. The introducers' passionate, provocative, and personal engagements with hte spirituality and the language of the text make the Bible come alive as a stunning work of literature and remind us of its overwhelming contemporary relevance.[via]More editions of The Book of Job: Authorized King James Version:
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Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanismby Daniel PinchbeckISBN 0767907434 (0-7679-0743-4)
Softcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group
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While psychedelics of all sorts are demonized in America today, the visionary compounds found in plants are the spiritual sacraments of tribal cultures around the world. From the iboga of the Bwiti in Gabon, to the Mazatecs of Mexico, these plants are sacred because they awaken the mind to other levels of awareness--to a holographic vision of the universe.
Breaking Open the Head is a passionate, multilayered, and sometimes rashly personal inquiry into this deep division. On one level, Daniel Pinchbeck tells the story of the encounters between the modern consciousness of the West and these sacramental substances, including such thinkers as Allen Ginsberg, Antonin Artaud, Walter Benjamin, and Terence McKenna, and a new underground of present-day ethnobotanists, chemists, psychonauts, and philosophers. It is also a scrupulous recording of the author's wide-ranging investigation with these outlaw compounds, including a thirty-hour tribal initiation in West Africa; an all-night encounter with the master shamans of the South American rain forest; and a report from a psychedelic utopia in the Black Rock Desert that is the Burning Man Festival.
Breaking Open the Head is brave participatory journalism at its best, a vivid account of psychic and intellectual experiences that opened doors in the wall of Western rationalism and completed Daniel Pinchbeck's personal transformation from a jaded Manhattan journalist to shamanic initiate and grateful citizen of the cosmos. [via]More editions of Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism:
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The Case for FaithISBN 0762421037 (0-7624-2103-7)
Hardcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objects to Christianityby Lee StrobelISBN 0786248289 (0-7862-4828-9)
Hardcover, Thorndike Pr
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Christian Apologeticsby Norman L. GeislerISBN 0801038227 (0-8010-3822-7)
Softcover, Baker Pub Group
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Cien Anos De Soledadby Frederic SeamanISBN 0785950109 (0-7859-5010-9)
Softcover, French & European Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Cien Anos De Soledad'Book summary:A dense jungle of magic and literary gusto, this book pulls you in and engulfs you with its richness and beauty. Saying it is a story of a family is like saying the New Testament is a book about a carpenter. Following the family here reveals the history of several generations, and the passions, thoughts, and myths of a labyrinth of people, related and not. Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a gifted writer, and nowhere does he write with the fervor that he does in One Hundred Years of Solitude, a pleasurable ride unmatched in modern literature. [via]
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Collected Works of Bernard Lonergan: Insight A Study of Human Understandingby Frederick E. Crowe, Robert M. Doran, Bernard J. F. Lonergan, Lonergan Research InstituteISBN 0802034551 (0-8020-3455-1)
Softcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Comedy: An Essay on Comedyby Wylie Sypher, Sypher, Wylie, EdISBN 0801823277 (0-8018-2327-7)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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The Common Lawby Oliver W. HolmesISBN 0760754985 (0-7607-5498-5)
Hardcover, Barnes & Noble Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Common Law'Book summary:"The Common Law" changed America forever. The lectures - which were given at the Lowell Institute in Boston and subsequently published in 1880 - created a buzz of excitement that enveloped the New England intellectual community. Over a century later, we can look back at "The Common Law" and still feel the same sense of excitement that our predecessors did, virtually undiminished by the tumultuous decades of American jurisprudence that have followed. It remains an exhilarating landmark in law because both its content and its style, its substance and its process, perfectly mirror what common law is: a complex and diffuse combination of actual cases, history, analysis, and philosophy - all woven together to create the rules by which we live. [via]
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The Complete Correspondence, 1928-1940by Theodor W. Adorno, Walter BenjaminISBN 0745632149 (0-7456-3214-9)
Softcover, Blackwell Publishing, Incorporated
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Crossing The Threshold Of Hopeby John Paul II, Vittoriro MessoriISBN 0756775965 (0-7567-7596-5)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Cruzando El Umbral De La Esperanza/crossing The Threshold Of Hopeby Juan Pablo, Pedro Antonio Urbina, Vittorio MessoriISBN 0756776775 (0-7567-7677-5)
Softcover, Diane Pub Co
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Derrida: Deconstruction from Phenomenology to Ethicsby Christina HowellsISBN 0745611680 (0-7456-1168-0)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciencesby Galileo Galilei, Stephen W. HawkingISBN 0762420154 (0-7624-2015-4)
Softcover, Running Pr Book Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences'Book summary:This latest installment in our On the Shoulders of Giants series presents the provocative essay by Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) in its entirety. Famed for its unapologetic support of Copernicus's theory and subsequent proof that the earth did indeed revolve around the sun (and not vice versa), Galileo's essay engendered great controversy when it was published, as well as heated opposition from the Church. The first work to outwardly challenge the established authority of religion, Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences set the standard for all future scientists faced with the conflict of science and religion. In this text, readers will also find an illuminating biography of the father of modern physics, and an introduction by modern-day physics superstar Stephen Hawking.[via]More editions of Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences:
Dictionary of Philosophyby Dagobert D. RunesISBN 0802223885 (0-8022-2388-5)
Hardcover, Allied Books Ltd
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Edmund Burke: Speeches on the American War, and Letter to the Sheriffs of Bristolby Edmund Burke, Charles W. EliotISBN 0766182185 (0-7661-8218-5)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Education and the Good Life 1926by Bertrand RussellISBN 0766181618 (0-7661-8161-8)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Essays, Civil and Moral, New Atlantis, Areopagitica, Tractate on Education, Religio Medici: Harvard Classics 1909by Francis Bacon, Charles W. EliotISBN 076618210X (0-7661-8210-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co
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Essential Confuciusby Thomas ClearyISBN 0785809031 (0-7858-0903-1)
Hardcover, Book Sales, Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Essential Confucius'Book summary:Cleary presents the core teachings of the great Chinese philosopher, educator, and social critic in a convenient, easy-to-read format. Sayings from Confucius's Analects, or collection of aphorisms, are arranged in small groups by topic following his commentaries on the I Ching, or Book of Changes, the most profound of the Chinese classics. These remarks, which were incorporated into the I Ching itself, afford, as Cleary says, "the most convenient lens through which to view the ideas of Confucius systematically." This elegant organization makes it simple for the reader to consult the great sage readily on the wide variety of subjects with which he was concerned--including morality, etiquette, diplomacy, and social responsibility. Cleary's translation captures all the simplicity and directness of Confucius's eminently practical approach to life: "Be dutiful at home, brotherly in public; be discreet and trustworthy, love all people, and draw near to humanity. If you have extra energy as you do that, then study literature." The introduction provides solid philosophical and historical background, and notes on each of the 64 sections provide further insight into the subtleties of Confucian wisdom. --Uma Kukathas [via]
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Essential Zenby Kazuaki Tanahashi, Tensho D. SchneiderISBN 0785807217 (0-7858-0721-7)
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The Fate of Art: Aesthetic Alienation from Kant to Derrida and Adornoby J.M. BernsteinISBN 0745612415 (0-7456-1241-5)
Softcover, Polity Pr
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Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Resultsby John Christensen, Harry Paul, Stephen LundinISBN 0786866020 (0-7868-6602-0)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results'Book summary:Here's another management parable that draws its lesson from an unlikely source--this time it's the fun-loving fishmongers at Seattle's Pike Place Market. In Fish! the heroine, Mary Jane Ramirez, recently widowed and mother of two, is asked to engineer a turnaround of her company's troubled operations department, a group that authors Stephen Lundin, Harry Paul, and John Christensen describe as a "toxic energy dump." Most reasonable heads would cut their losses and move on. Why bother with this bunch of losers? But the authors don't make it so easy for Mary Jane. Instead, she's left to sort out this mess with the help of head fishmonger Lonnie. Based on a bestselling corporate education video, Fish! aims to help employees find their way to a fun and happy workplace. While some may find the story line and prescriptions--such as "Choose Your Attitude," "Make Their Day," and "Be Present"--downright corny, others will find a good dose of worthwhile motivational management techniques. If you loved Who Moved My Cheese? then you'll find much to like here. And don't worry about Mary Jane and kids. Fish! has a happy ending for everyone. --Harry C. Edwards [via]
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Fish!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Resultsby Stephen LundinISBN 0786868813 (0-7868-6881-3)
Hardcover, Hyperion Books
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Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Experience and Philosophy: A Personal Record of Transformation and a Discussion of Transcendental Consciousness Containinby Franklin Merrell-WolffISBN 0791419630 (0-7914-1963-0)
Hardcover, State Univ of New York Pr
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Franklin Merrell-Wolff's Experience and Philosophy : A Personal Record of Transformation and a Discussion of Transcendental Consciousness: Containing His Philosophy of Consciousness Without an Object and His Pathways Through to Spaceby Franklin Merrell-WolffISBN 0791419649 (0-7914-1964-9)
Softcover, State University of New York Press
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Freedom And Necessityby Emma Bull, Steven BrustISBN 0765316803 (0-7653-1680-3)
Softcover, Orb Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom And Necessity'Book summary:The early 19th century was a heady time of repeated challenges to the assumption that the social order as it stood was supernaturally (divinely) ordained. A particularly sticky web of politics and romance traps Susan Voight and James Cobham in a dense, thrillingly suspenseful plot connecting a reforming democratic labor movement, Chartism, to a secret society, the Trotters Club, whose corrupt members intend to exploit a magical ritual for their personal, complicated purposes of vengeance and power. Layers of truths and falsehoods mislead and confound the protagonists in their dealings with each other and the conspiracies; they come to understand that only honesty can save them. Although the perversion of the natural power of sorcery fails because it is unnatural, the social order, unnatural or not, is more resistant to justice. The swift pace, surprising developments, and appealing characters make it nearly impossible to put this book down. Though the women's rights movement is glancingly acknowledged, the conventionally romantic fulfillment is a little disappointing. Is there no other end for intelligent, financially independent women than maternity and love-partnership (as binding, or more, as legal marriage) with a man? [via]
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From the Closed World to the Infinite Universeby Alexandre KoyreISBN 0801803470 (0-8018-0347-0)
Softcover, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
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Gilgamesh: A New English Versionby Stephen MitchellISBN 0743261690 (0-7432-6169-0)
Softcover, Free Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Gilgamesh: A New English Version'Book summary:Gilgamesh is considered one of the masterpieces of world literature, but until now there has not been a version that is a superlative literary text in its own right. Acclaimed by critics and scholars, Stephen Mitchell's version allows us to enter an ancient masterpiece as if for the first time, to see how startlingly beautiful, intelligent, and alive it is. [via]
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God : The Evidenceby Patrick GlynnISBN 0761509410 (0-7615-0941-0)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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God: The Evidence The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular Worldby Patrick GlynnISBN 0761519645 (0-7615-1964-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'God: The Evidence The Reconciliation of Faith and Reason in a Postsecular World'Book summary:In the modern age science has been winning its centuries-old battle with religion for the mind of man. The evidence has long seemed incontrovertible: Life was merely a product of blind chance-a cosmic roll of an infinite number of dice across an eternity of time. Slowly, methodically, scientists supplied answers to mysteries insufficiently explained by theologians. Reason pushed faith off into the shadows of mythology and superstition, while atheism became a badge of wisdom. Our culture, freed from moral obligation, explored the frontiers of secularism. God was dead. "Glynn's arguments for the existence of God put the burden of disproof on those intellectuals who think that the question has long since been settled." - Andrew M. GreeleyBut now, in the twilight of the twentieth century, a startling transformation is taking place in Western scientific and intellectual thought. At its heart is the dawning realization that the universe, far from being a sea of chaos, appears instead to be an intricately tuned mechanism whose every molecule, whose every physical law, seems to have been design from the very first nanosecond of the big bang toward a single end-the creation of life. This intellectually and spiritually riveting book asks a provocative question: Is science, the long-time nemesis of the Deity, uncovering the face of God? Patrick Glynn lays out the astonishing new evidence that caused him to turn away from the atheism he acquired as a student at Harvard and Cambridge. The facts are fascinating: Physicists are discovering an unexplainable order to the cosmos; medical researchers are reporting the extraordinary healing powers of prayer and are documenting credible accounts of near-death experiences; psychologists, who once considered belief in God to be a sign of neurosis, are finding instead that religious faith is a powerful elixir for mental health; and sociologists are now acknowledging the destructive consequences of a value-free society. [via]
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God, Time, and Knowledgeby William HaskerISBN 0801485452 (0-8014-8545-2)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Hannah Arendt: Life Is a Narrativeby Julia Kristeva, Frank CollinsISBN 0802035213 (0-8020-3521-3)
Hardcover, Univ of Toronto Pr
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Heidegger: An Introductionby Richard F. H. PoltISBN 0801485649 (0-8014-8564-9)
Softcover, Cornell Univ Pr
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Idea of Proseby Giorgio AgambenISBN 0791423808 (0-7914-2380-8)
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Insight: A Study of Human Understandingby Bernard LonerganISBN 0802209947 (0-8022-0994-7)
Hardcover, Philosophical Library
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Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping A Post-secular Theologyby James K. A. Smith, John MilbankISBN 0801027357 (0-8010-2735-7)
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While there is still no consensus concerning what a postmodern society should look like, James K. A. Smith suggests that the answer is a reaffirmation of the belief that Jesus is Lord over all. Smith traces the trends and directions of Radical Orthodoxy, proposing that it can provide an old-but-new theology for a new generation of Christians. This book will challenge and encourage pastors and thoughtful laypeople interested in learning more about currents in contemporary theology. [via]More editions of Introducing Radical Orthodoxy: Mapping A Post-secular Theology:
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Kierkegaard Within Your GraspISBN 0764559745 (0-7645-5974-5)
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The Labyrinth of Solitude: The Other Mexico, Return to the Labrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, the Philanthropic Orgeby Octavio PazISBN 080215042X (0-8021-5042-X)
Softcover, Grove Pr
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Leaves of Grassby Walt Whitman, Malcolm CowleyISBN 076070550X (0-7607-0550-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Leaves of Grass'Book summary:Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself," "I Sing the Body Electric," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass, revising it in several editions until his death.
Leaves of Grass has its genesis in an essay called The Poet by Ralph Waldo Emerson, published in 1845, which expressed the need for the United States to have its own new and unique poet to write about the new country's virtues and vices. Whitman, reading the essay, consciously set out to answer Emerson's call as he began work on the first edition of Leaves of Grass. Whitman, however, downplayed Emerson's influence, stating, "I was simmering, simmering, simmering; Emerson brought me to a boil".
On May 15, 1855, Whitman registered the title Leaves of Grass with the clerk of the United States District Court, Southern District of New Jersey, and received its copyright. The first edition was published in Brooklyn at the Fulton Street printing shop of two Scottish immigrants, James and Andrew Rome, whom Whitman had known since the 1840s, on July 4, 1855. Whitman paid for and did much of the typesetting for the first edition himself. The book did not include the author's name, instead offering an engraving by Samuel Hollyer depicting the poet in work clothes and a jaunty hat, arms at his side. Early advertisements for the first edition appealed to "lovers of literary curiosities" as an oddity. Sales on the book were few but Whitman was not discouraged.
The first edition was very small, collecting only twelve unnamed poems in 95 pages. Whitman once said he intended the book to be small enough to be carried in a pocket. "That would tend to induce people to take me along with them and read me in the open air: I am nearly always successful with the reader in the open air. "About 800 were printed, though only 200 were bound in its trademark green cloth cover. The only American library known to have purchased a copy of the first edition was in Philadelphia. The poems of the first edition, which were given titles in later issues, were "Song of Myself," "A Song For Occupations," "To Think of Time," "The Sleepers," "I Sing the Body Electric," "Faces," "Song of the Answerer," "Europe: The 72d and 73d Years of These States," "A Boston Ballad," "There Was a Child Went Forth," "Who Learns My Lesson Complete?", and "Great Are the Myths."
The title Leaves of Grass was a pun. "Grass" was a term given by publishers to works of minor value and "leaves" is another name for the pages on which they were printed.
Whitman sent a copy of the first edition of Leaves of Grass to Emerson, the man who had inspired its creation. In a letter to Whitman, Emerson said "I find it the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom America has yet contributed." He went on, "I am very happy in reading it, as great power makes us happy." [via]More editions of Leaves of Grass:
Liberalism Ancient and Modernby Leo StraussISBN 0801495490 (0-8014-9549-0)
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Mirrors of the Soulby Kahlil GibranISBN 0785810714 (0-7858-1071-4)
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Naming, Necessity, and Natural Kindsby Ithaca [NISBN 0801498619 (0-8014-9861-9)
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Necessity, Cause, and Blame: Perspectives on Aristotle's Theoryby Richard SorabjiISBN 0801492440 (0-8014-9244-0)
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The New Amplified Pilgrim's Progress: From This World to That Which Is to Comeby John BunyanISBN 0768420512 (0-7684-2051-2)
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Exciting new levels of love and joy, hope and humor are skillfully woven by master storyteller Jim Pappas, into this enchanting retelling of John Bunyan's immortal classic! Designed to return this spellbinding masterpiece of angels and giants, castles and dragon, to the fireside of the everyday reader. [via]
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The New Constellation: The Ethical-political Horizons of Modernity/Postmodernityby Richard J. BernsteinISBN 0745609201 (0-7456-0920-1)
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On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Languageby Giambattista Vico, L.M. PalmerISBN 0801412803 (0-8014-1280-3)
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On the Most Ancient Wisdom of the Italians: Unearthed from the Origins of the Latin Language Including the Disputation With the Giornale De' Letterati D'Italiaby Giambattista Vico, L.M. PalmerISBN 0801495113 (0-8014-9511-3)
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This edition incorporates translations from the Italian of a contemporary review and Vico's responses, published in 1711 and 1712. L. M. Palmer's translation helps make more accessible a treatise of vital importance for an understanding of Vico's epistemology, psychology, and philosophy of mathematics.
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The Only Wise God: The Compatibility of Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedomby William Lane CraigISBN 0801025192 (0-8010-2519-2)
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The Opium of the Intellectualsby Raymond Aron, Daniel J. Mahoney, Brian C. Anderson, Harvey C. MansfieldISBN 0765807009 (0-7658-0700-9)
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Aron explodes the three "myths" of radical thought: the Left, the Revolution, and the Proletariat. Each of these ideas, Aron shows, are ideological, mystifying rather than illuminating. He also provides a fascinating sociology of intellectual life and a powerful critique of historical determinism in the classically restrained prose for which he is justly famous.
For this new edition, prepared by Daniel J. Mahoney and Brian C. Anderson as part of Transaction's ongoing "Aron Project," political scientist Harvey Mansfield provides a luminous introduction that underscores the permanent relevance of Aron's work. The new edition also includes as an appendix "Fanaticism, Prudence, and Faith," a remarkable essay that Aron wrote to defend Opium from its critics and to explain further his view of the proper role of political thinking. The book will be of interest to all students of political theory, history, and sociology.
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Origins of Greek Thoughtby Jean-Pierre VernantISBN 0801492939 (0-8014-9293-9)
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The Pilgrim's Progressby John BunyanISBN 0800786092 (0-8007-8609-2)
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Loved by young and old alike, the pages of "Pilgrim's Progress" have charmed and challenged the hearts of millions for more than 300 years. Offering a message of encouragement along the ever-winding road of faith, this wonderful guidebook for the new believer also provides inspiration for the present-day Christian's everyday life.
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Plato's Cosmology: The Timaeus Of Plato Translated With A Running Commentaryby Francis MacDonald CornfordISBN 0766186660 (0-7661-8666-0)
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The Real Face Of Atheismby Ravi ZachariasISBN 0801065119 (0-8010-6511-9)
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Formerly published as A Shattered Visage, The Real Face of Atheism systematically examines atheistic positions on human nature, the meaning of life, morality, the "First Cause," death, and more. With a new introduction and revisions throughout, The Real Face of Atheism is the perfect text for pastors, students, and thinking laypeople who want to improve their apologetic skill and reach out to non-believers. [via]More editions of The Real Face Of Atheism:
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A Realist Conception of Truthby William P. AlstonISBN 0801484103 (0-8014-8410-3)
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Religionby Gianni Vattimo, Jacques DerridaISBN 0745618340 (0-7456-1834-0)
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The Science of God: The Convergence of Scientific and Biblical Wisdomby Gerald SchroederISBN 076790303X (0-7679-0303-X)
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The Sexual Contractby Carole PatemanISBN 0745604323 (0-7456-0432-3)
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A Shattered Visage: The Real Face of Atheismby Ravi ZachariasISBN 0801099382 (0-8010-9938-2)
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A Short History Of Progressby Ronald WrightISBN 0786715472 (0-7867-1547-2)
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So Human an Animal: How We Are Shaped by Surroundings and Eventsby Rene Jules DubosISBN 0765804298 (0-7658-0429-8)
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The Socratic Movementby Paul A. Vander WaerdtISBN 0801499038 (0-8014-9903-8)
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St. Francis of Assisiby G. K. ChestertonISBN 0766137929 (0-7661-3792-9)
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however wild and romantic his gyrations might appear to many, [Francis] always hung on to reason by one invisible and indestructible hair ... The great saint was sane ... He was not a mere eccentric because he was always turning towards the center and heart of the maze; he took the queerest and most zigzag short cuts through the wood, but he was always going home.
As one editor of Chesterton's puts it, "of St. Francis he might have said what he said about Blake: 'We always feel that he is saying something very plain and emphatic even when we have not the wildest notion of what it is'". --Doug Thorpe [via] 
The Step Not Beyondby Maurice Blanchot, Lycette NelsonISBN 0791409082 (0-7914-0908-2)
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The Struggle for Recognition: The Moral Grammar of Social Conflictsby Axel HonnethISBN 0745618383 (0-7456-1838-3)
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The Taoist Experience: An Anthologyby Livia KohnISBN 0791415805 (0-7914-1580-5)
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Thoughts and Meditationsby Kahlil GibranISBN 0785810692 (0-7858-1069-2)
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Three Novels by Samuel Beckettby Samuel BeckettISBN 0802150918 (0-8021-5091-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Three Novels by Samuel Beckett'Book summary:Samuel Beckett's brilliance as a dramatist--as the creator of Waiting for Godot, Krapp's Last Tape, and that despairing pas de deux Endgame--has tended to overshadow his gifts as a novelist. Yet he's unmistakably one of the great fiction writers of our century. As a young man he took dictation (literally) from James Joyce, and absorbed everything that myopic maestro had to offer when it came to Anglo-Irish prosody. Still, Beckett's instincts would ultimately steer him away from Joyce's delirious play with high and low diction, toward a more concentrated, even compulsive style. His earlier novels, like Murphy or Watt, give us a taste of what was to come. But Beckett truly hit his stride with a trilogy of early-1950s masterpieces: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. Here he dispenses with all the customary props of contemporary fiction--including exposition, plot, and increasingly, paragraphs--and turns his attention to consciousness itself. Nobody has ever evoked the pain of existence, or the steady slide toward nonexistence, with such poetic, garrulous accuracy. And once you've attuned yourself to the epistemological vaudeville of Beckett's prose, he turns out to be the funniest writer on the planet--ever.
None of the three entries in the trilogy is exactly amenable to summary. It's fair to say, though, that Molloy is the easiest to read, with at least a bare-bones narrative and an abundance of comical set pieces. In one famous episode, the narrator spends page after page figuring out how to vary the sucking stones he carries in his pockets:
And while I gazed thus at my stones, revolving interminable martingales all equally defective, and crushing handfuls of sand, so that the sand ran through my fingers and fell back on the strand, yes, while thus I lulled my mind and part of my body, one day suddenly it dawned on the former, dimly, that I might perhaps achieve my purpose without increasing the number of my pockets, or reducing the number of my stones, but simply by sacrificing the principle of trim. The meaning of this illumination, which suddenly began to sing within me, like a verse of Isaiah, or of Jeremiah, I did not penetrate at once, and notably the word trim, which I had never met with, in this sense, long remained obscure.
This nutty ratiocination goes on for much, much longer, until the narrator loses patience and throws the stones away. And that's a fair encapsulation of Beckett's philosophy: he argues for the essential pointlessness of life--the solitary, wretched splendor of human existence--but does so in a comic rather than a tragic register, which ends up softening or even overpowering the bleakness of his initial premise. So Malone Dies opens with a typically morbid mood-lifter ("I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of it all") and then makes endless comedic hay out of Malone's failure to keel over. And by the time we hit The Unnamable, we're forced to wonder whether the narrator actually exists: "I, say I. Unbelieving. Questions, hypotheses, call them that. Keep going, going on, call that going, call that on." Happily, Beckett worried these same questions and hypotheses to the end of his career, with increasingly minimalistic gusto. But he never topped the intensity or linguistic brilliance of this mind-bending three-part invention. --James Marcus [via]More editions of Three Novels by Samuel Beckett:
Time As History, George Grantby William Christian, George Parkin GrantISBN 0802075932 (0-8020-7593-2)
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Unfolding Meaning: A Weekend of Dialogue With David Bohmby Donald FactorISBN 0744800641 (0-7448-0064-1)
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Vaguenessby Timothy Williamson, Delia GraffISBN 0754620808 (0-7546-2080-8)
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Violence and the Sacredby Rene GirardISBN 0801822181 (0-8018-2218-1)
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A Visionby W. B. YeatsISBN 0766129624 (0-7661-2962-4)
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What It Means to Be a Libertarian: A Personal Interpretationby Charles MurrayISBN 0767900391 (0-7679-0039-1)
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What Would Buffy Do?: The Vampire Slayer As Spiritual Guideby Jana RiessISBN 0787969222 (0-7879-6922-2)
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Who Needs God?by Harold KushnerISBN 0743411900 (0-7434-1190-0)
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Wittgenstein: A Religious Point of Viewby Norman Malcolm, Peter WinchISBN 0801482666 (0-8014-8266-6)
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A Wrinkle in Time: Library Editionby Madeleine L'EngleISBN 0786273356 (0-7862-7335-6)
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Young people who have trouble finding their place in the world will connect with the "misfit" characters in this provocative story. This is no superhero tale, nor is it science fiction, although it shares elements of both. The travelers must rely on their individual and collective strengths, delving deep into their characters to find answers.
A classic since 1962, Madeleine L'Engle's A Wrinkle in Time is sophisticated in concept yet warm in tone, with mystery and love coursing through its pages. Meg's shattering yet ultimately freeing discovery that her father is not omnipotent provides a satisfying coming-of-age element. Readers will feel a sense of power as they travel with these three children, challenging concepts of time, space, and the power of good over evil. (Ages 9 to 12) [via]
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